Up and Down Wall Street

Capitol Punishment

SIX DEGREES OF SEPARATION? make that more like six hundred. The gap, that is, between Congress and all of us humble folk who man the factories and work the offices and till the soil of this great nation.

It has long been evident that our chosen representatives occupy a parallel universe, where they cavort at some vast remove from the rest of humanity. While ordinary people go about their daily business, getting and spending, birthing...